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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Kalyeena Makortoff Banking correspondent

MPs seek to avoid race to the bottom in post-Brexit City regulation

City of London financial district skyline
The Treasury committee has expressed concern that lessons of the 2008 banking crisis are being forgotten. Photograph: Hannah McKay/Reuters

Cross-party MPs are forming a special group to scrutinise post-Brexit rules for City firms, amid concerns that the overhaul could result in a regulatory race to the bottom.

The new subcommittee, which will be run by Treasury committee members and advised by a panel of experts, is meant to make up for the fact that new rules are no longer being dissected by politicians from the European parliament’s economic and monetary affairs committee, after the UK’s exit from the EU.

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